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From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 20:50:04 +0200
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] syscalls/mprotect04: Fix compilation error for
 ia64
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Hi Cyril,

> Hi!
> > > Thanks, I missed the ia64-specific code. RHEL dropped support for
> > > ia64 in RHEL6, and RHEL5 will likely be EOL in ~6 months, so I'm
> > > fine either way.
> > Thanks for a quick reply. So it's up to Cyril, whether keep the
> > support or not.

> Hmm, the last processors were made in 2017 but looking at TOP500 systems
> there was peek for itanim in 2004 and there were pretty nonexistent
> since 2012. Given that officially supported distros are going EOL soon
> enough I do not think that it makes sense to keep itanium specific code
> just so that 0.1% of our tests works on these processors.
Agree. OK, I'll remove ia64 specific code.


Kind regards,
Petr